Emily Mitchell is the author of a novel, The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), which was a finalist for the 2008 NYPL Young Lions Award, and a collection of short stories, Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015). Her short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, the Sun, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Southern Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Guernica and the New York Times. She’s the recipient of fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, Ucross, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Can Serrat. Her second collection of short fiction, The Church of Divine Electricity, won the 2023 Elixir Press Fiction Award and is forthcoming from Elixir Press. She teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland.